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Stuttered

Stutter \Stut"ter\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Stuttered; p. pr. & vb. n. Stuttering.] [Freq. of stut, OE. stoten; probably of Dutch or Low German origin; cf. D. & LG. stotteren, G. stottern, D. stooten to push, to strike; akin to G. stossen, Icel. stauta, Sw. st["o]ta, Dan. st["o]de, Goth. stautan, L. tundere, Skr. tud to thrust. Cf. Contuse, Obtuse.] To hesitate or stumble in uttering words; to speak with spasmodic repetition or pauses; to stammer.

Trembling, stuttering, calling for his confessor.
--Macaulay.

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stuttered

vb. (en-past of: stutter)

Usage examples of "stuttered".

His face knotted up like a wet dishrag when he stuttered, Ben noticed, and suddenly an odd thought occurred to him: Bill hadn't stuttered at all when he was mocking the way Henry Bowers talked.

They let the rhythm hold for a few turns, allowed the Duergar to fall into the patterns of their dance, and then, Drizzt still leading, stuttered their steps, and even reversed the flow.

Arumn stuttered, sensing that the situation was deteriorating very fast.

Lord Feringal stuttered, hardly able to speak through the bile in his throat.

Morik stuttered, feeling as if the very walls were tightening around him.

He stuttered and stumbled, clenched his polearm so tightly in both hands that his knuckles turned as white as his face, and at last he managed to stammer out, “Halt!

He stuttered over the begin­nings of a series of arguments, the primary of which was the fact that it was getting late in the season to be heading out of Ten-Towns.

If his judgment was mistaken - if he stuttered, you might say - he would be badly hurt or killed.

When he stuttered over the plosive sounds, spittle flew from his lips.

Her body suddenly stuttered and seemed to leap upward, not orgasming but reaching a plateau far above any she had reached with Tom or the other two lovers she had had before Tom.

His voice was deeper, hardly his own at all, and in a searing flash of memory Richie remembered that Bill only stuttered in his own voice: when he pretended to be someone else, he never did.

Belster stuttered, as though trying to use logic against the ranger's words.

Strongbow was distraught and he stuttered, "I brought the death certificate, Mrs.

First hymn and she imitated the others, standing when they stood, sitting when they sat, praying when they prayed but always to the Blessed Mother, listened to the sermon that the Reverend Tweet stuttered, completely undone by her presence.

Maureen looked green under the oil light and stuttered, "She also said that if there was anything I wanted to know about.